Exeter No. 6 / Execestre / Exonia

INFORMATION

FontID: 14240EXE

Object Type: Baptismal Font1?

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Thomas the Apostle

Church Patron Saints: St. Thomas the Apostle

Church Location: 54 Cowick St, Exeter EX4 1AP, UK -- Tel.: +44 1392 437486

Country Name: England

Location: Devon, South West

Directions to Site: Located on Cowick Street

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Exter

Historical Region: Hundred of Wonford

Century and Period: Medieval

Church Notes: the dedication may have been changed in the mid-17th century from Thomas of Canterbury to Thomas the Apostle -- original medieval church may have been destroyed by floods; re-built in early-15th century; re-built again in mid-17th century

Font Notes: Click to view

There are eighteen entries for Exeter [variant spellings] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SX9292/exeter/] [accessed 13 May 2018], of which two mention a church in it. Pevsner (1952) writes: "Font. In a rich neo-Dec[orated] of 1812" [NB: the present church dates from the mid-17th century, but it replaced earlier buildings going back to medieval times; we have no information on the font of the medieval church]

COORDINATES

UTM: 30U 461878 5618383

REFERENCES

Pevsner, Nikolaus, South Devon, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1952